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| Libya families end execution bid | Libya families end execution bid |
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| Families of Libyan children infected with HIV have dropped demands for six foreign medical workers convicted in the case to be sentenced to death. | |
| They will hand the decision to Libya's High Judicial Council, which is due to make the final ruling on the matter. | |
| Relatives of 438 children have accepted compensation worth $1m per child. | Relatives of 438 children have accepted compensation worth $1m per child. |
| Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been convicted of deliberately starting a HIV epidemic in the 1990s. They say they are innocent. | Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been convicted of deliberately starting a HIV epidemic in the 1990s. They say they are innocent. |
| Libya's Supreme Court last week upheld their 2004 death sentences, placing the medics fate with the High Judicial Council. | |
| The council, a semi-political body, is due to meet later on Tuesday. It has the power to commute sentences or issue pardons. | |
| The BBC's Rana Jawad, in the Libyan capital Tripoli, says that under Islamic law financial compensation offsets the death penalty. | |
| The deal indicates that it is highly unlikely that the death penalty verdicts will be upheld, she adds. |